Complete Clue List
Across
1. Investigate insane QUININE RIOT (anag., 7,4)
7. Follow (5)
9. Bring out (5)
11. One expressing contempt (7)
13. German industrial region (4)
14. Cousin's mother (4)
15. Possessed (5)
16. Vicinity (4)
18. Surgery souvenir (4)
20. Counsellor (var., 7)
23. Backs, anatomically (5)
24. Ruth's mother-in-law (Ruth 1:16-18 [NIV]) (5)
25. Shifty DEBS SMILING and pretending (anag., 11)
Down
1. RETIRED LAND became interspersed (anag., 11)
2. Suppress (5)
3. Doing nothing (4)
4. Pretty pitcher (4)
5. World's smallest island nation (5)
6. Bringing down jumbled INVENTOR RUG (anag., 11)
8. Progress (7)
10. World's lowest lake (4,3)
12. Boredom (5)
17. Counts' counterparts (5)
19. Saffron sources (5)
21. Low-lying land OR Caesar's farewell (4)
22. Hoity-toity type (4)